Quick Card with Watercolour Wash and Wood Words #stampinup

Hi Everyone

Thanks for stopping by. Hope your week has started off well. It's been quite hot in our flat due to the sunny weather we've been having in the UK. We've had all windows and doors open with 3 fans going to keep us cool and our 3 cats! Minnie, Tommy and Sukie are indoor cats but they are well behaved when the door is open...with supervision of course. 

If you follow our Instagram, you may have seen the photo of all 3 of them just lying by our front door. They tend to run inside when they hear vehicles passing by the main road right opposite the flat which is why we decided to keep them indoors. Tommy and Sukie did ran out briefly then luckily went straight back in! We've only started using Instagram but if you would like to see more photos of our cats and crafts, you can follow HERE.

Anyways, here is today's inspiration using the Wood Words stamp set. It's a quick and easy card for hot days you need your crafting fix but don't want to be stuck indoors:

Black base card A6 folded 5 13/16" x 8 1/4" score @ 4 1/8"

Berry Burst mat 3 15/16" x 5 5/8"

Watercolour Paper 3 3/4" x 5 7/16"
Whisper White insert 3 3/4" x 5 7/16"

Inks: Berry Burst, Tranquil Tide, Lemon Lime Twist & Smoky Slate

1. Apply water on the Watercolour Paper with Aqua Painters
2. Press your ink pads to transfer the ink on the lid/tray
3. Add the colours Lemon Lime Twist and Tranquil Tide by picking up the ink transferred to the lid using the Aqua Painters
4. Wait to dry and stamp the flowers in Smoky Slate (an even better ink to use is the Basic Gray Archival Stampin' Pad)
5. Colour the flowers in Berry Burst  and the leaves in Tranquil Tide
6. Adhere to Berry Burst mat
7. Stamp the circle in Lemon Lime Twist then die cut using the smallest circle from Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies
8. Stamp 'Thank You' sentiment in Smoky Gray and adhere on Watercolour Paper with Stampin' Dimensionals
9. Create a mini bow with the Copper Trim and adhere using a Mini Glue Dot
10. Stamp the flower in Lemon Lime Twist on the top left and bottom right of the Whisper White card and adhere for the insert.

We have also started labelling the back of our cards with the stamp we ordered from Vistaprint. We leave our handmade cards at Chineham Church to sell, where we run our Card Making and Papercraft Class. Most proceeds we donate to the church and the rest goes towards replenishing our stash so we can make more :) On top of our new self-inking stamp, we re-designed and ordered our business cards from Vistaprint, it's great to have our logo on both! If you sell your own crafts or need to renew your business cards, check out Vistaprint HERE

Thanks again for stopping by. Until next time, BYEEEE!

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